A shipment of imported Belarusian mushrooms contaminated with radioactivity was blocked from entering France this week, French authorities said. While there is no connection with the cloud of radioactive pollution coming from Russia that has been detected over Europe, as previously thought,

Cybersecurity researchers have been racing to analyze the new ransomware that struck Tuesday, first hitting Ukraine in an avalanche of attacks before spreading to other countries around the world. The malicious software has been identified as a modified version of a previously known ransomware,

A massive cyberattack that freezes computers and demands a ransom to open them has hit companies in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world today, U.S. officials and private cybersecurity analysts said. Among the American targets are the giant Merck pharmaceutical company in New Jersey; a major

Three Mile Island, the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant that was the site of the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the United States 38 years ago, will be closing in 2019, unless it receives a state bailout, parent company Exelon Corp said. The state is second largest producer of nuclear

The Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, site of the United States' worst commercial nuclear power accident, will shut down in 2019 without a financial rescue from the state of Pennsylvania, according to owner Exelon Corp. Chicago-based Exelon issued a press release announcing the planned

The breach of a tunnel that houses contaminated radioactive materials at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has drawn attention to potential risks around nuclear radiation exposure , including cancer concerns long-cited in the surrounding community, which has dubbed the scar left behind following

David Muir is an Emmy-award winning journalist for ABC News. Muir is the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir and co-anchor of ABC’s “ 20/20 .” For more than a decade, Muir has reported from international hotspots around the world including Tehran, Tahrir Square,

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake has been reported in Fukushima, Japan, according to the United States Geological Survey. Tremors from the earthquake could be felt as far away as Tokyo, about 150 miles south of the epicenter. Hazardous tsunamis are possible for parts of Japan's east coast within 300